Sendmail Aliases: forward mail to script

mikeshn · 01-22-2004, 04:39 PM

I added this line to /etc/aliases "user1: | /home/mike/forward_mail.pl"
then I run newaliases command and restarted sendmail.

When I send the email to the email address I receive Mail Delivery Subsystem

The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
| /home/mike/process/forward_mail.pl
(reason: Service unavailable)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
smrsh: "forward_mail.pl" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

mcleodnine · 01-23-2004, 10:17 PM

Looks like either the sendmail can't run it due to permissions (sendmail user) or file attributes (is it +x?)

skidadon · 07-03-2010, 08:22 PM

Looks like you need to add the following symbolic link for sendmail to php so that sendmail can run php during runtime
ln -s /usr/bin/php /etc/smrsh/php

Also, ensure your permissions are 100%. The script should 755 permissions.

Ciao.